High School
New Waverly lands playoff berth behind right arm of Ryson Nunez
As a seventh grader, Ryson Nunez was told he'd never play quarterback because he had one arm. He threw New Waverly Bulldogs into the playoffs two years later.
When Ryson Nunez was in the seventh grade, the football coaches called his parents into the office and told them their son wouldn’t play quarterback for them. Or anyone else. Sure, he had a rocket right arm, but the coaches were concerned with the left one that wasn’t there, cut off at the elbow since birth.
“They were blatantly honest and said he would never play high school football as a quarterback, so we were kind of wasting our time,” Ryson’s mother, Krystal, said.
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